After five years of work, the Life+ Cap DOM programme, supported by the European Commission and the Ministry of Ecology, has come to an end. The actions realised under this project have contributed to halting the decline of the incredible biodiversity found in the overseas territories. The (…)
Since 2012, GEPOG has been running a STOC (point count) survey in French Guiana, along with the LPO and MNHN. This participative scientific tool is used to follow the populations of common birds over time, thanks to the help of volunteer observers. Each participant follows a standard route, (…)
A few weeks before the end of the Life+ Cap DOM programme, François-Xavier Couzi, Director of SEOR revisits some of the key points of the project. One of the most important benefits is, in his opinion, the setting up not only of a network of 'inter-DOM' activities but also the systematic (…)
Five years after the first steps of the Life+ Cap DOM programme for the conservation of the Réunion Cuckoo-shrike, or 'Tuit-tuit', Damien Fouillot, Project Leader at SEOR gives a summing-up of the programme. A look back at actions crowned with success, as the population of the cuckoo-shrike, (…)
Following four years of work on the Agami Heron (Agamia agami) and several months of editing with the partners concerned, the species' conservation plan is now available, in three languages:
English:
French:
Spanish :
Looking back over five years of work towards protecting the Guianan Cock-of-the-rock in French Guiana. Starting with a study period to understand the species better, then passing through the stage of working together with the various economic stakeholders involved, to the construction of the (…)
Between April and June 2015 the most recent fieldwork studies concerning Acacia mangium took place in the four test areas along the littoral. Verifying the species, pulling up plants or chopping them down, measuring heights and sometimes using geolocators, meant that the teams of volunteers (…)
In 2014, for the second year running, STOC (point-count) surveys took place across La Réunion.
It is not yet possible to draw any significant conclusions about population changes over time, with just two years' work to go on, but SEOR has, nevertheless, been able to make a certain number of (…)